President Lyndon Johnson speaking about the Great Society on the College Green of Ohio University in 1964. (Photo Provided) Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s ...

Johnson shocked the country when he made ... that momentum to enact a series of laws meant to build the US into a “great society,” including Medicare and the Voting Rights Act, and declared ...

Johnson sat behind the large wooden desk he ... Vietnam would have threatened to diminish the mammoth accomplishments of his Great Society, especially those around civil rights, his most enduring ...